Posts by A.proclaimer

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Honeymoon over for the carts

by Deltawave in

speaking with inlaws i another congregation today who said exactly what is being said in our own hall.

the trolly work is long and boring and no one even notices they are there anymore but walk right on by.

jehovah really is speeding up the work lol.

I've done the trolleys twice now and it's quite boring. At least wiyh regular service you're always walking around. During our group meeting before Saturday morning preaching, the elder assigned some people to the trolley. One more person was needed but no one really wanted to volunteer to do the cart.

Under my experience, there have been some people who have gone up to the carts but it's only one or two at most. Sometimes no one comes up. My mother got a number of people but only because she went up to talk to them, although the rules are you aren't suppose to talk to anyone and just stand there. One time, to entertain myself and a kid that was with me, we played "I spy".

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Honeymoon over for the carts

by Deltawave in

speaking with inlaws i another congregation today who said exactly what is being said in our own hall.

the trolly work is long and boring and no one even notices they are there anymore but walk right on by.

jehovah really is speeding up the work lol.

A.proclaimer

I've done the trolleys twice now and it's quite boring. At least wiyh regular service you're always walking around. During our group meeting before Saturday morning preaching, the elder assigned some people to the trolley. One more person was needed but no one really wanted to volunteer to do the cart.

Under my experience, there have been some people who have gone up to the carts but it's only one or two at most. Sometimes no one comes up. My mother got a number of people but only because she went up to talk to them, although the rules are you aren't suppose to talk to anyone and just stand there. One time, to entertain myself and a kid that was with me, we played "I spy".

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My Bthel Experince Part 19 The Last Chapter..(really) Bethel Overseers

by new boy in

there were other people who either killed themselves or tried to kill themselves while they were at "the house of god.

one person who did kill himself was richard wheelock, press room overseer ......he jumped out of a window at the watchtower farm one day.

it seemed, he was never quite the same after his wife "willy" died.

A.proclaimer

Thank you for sharing your stories. They were great to read and I always looked forward to reading the next one.

What I am wondering is if 1975 had any impact or mention of inside bethel or was this more on the congregation level?

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My Bethel Experience Part 18. The last Bethel Tread, Blood Guilt

by new boy in

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besides almost getting mugged a couple of times.

his folks had a fit and told him he had to go back and "do his time".........and do the "right thing"...........he told me he had just left max larson’s office, max had just told him “what a disappointment he was, to his family and to the organization!

“do you ever think about james olson?

A.proclaimer

Wow such a sad story. He had no real way out. This is something we would have never known or heard about had it not been for posts like these. Does anyone know if this story was caught on by the press?

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My Bethel Experience Part 16

by new boy in

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we are nearing the end of the journey.......so this next two chapters will be called "odds and ends" or things i didn't put in the right chapters..........because i thought of them after those chapters were written..... .

bethel joke.

three guys are sitting around, each drinking a large glass of beer.........a publisher, a pioneer and a bethelite.......just then, a fly lands in all three of their glasses of beer........the publisher....pushes the glass away and says....."i can't drink this now"...........the pioneer looks over, and picks the fly out of the beer and keeps on drinking............the bethelite.........picks up the fly by its wings and holds its head over the glass and says "spit it out......spit it out!

A.proclaimer

Where's part 15? Or maybe it was a typo. Nevertheless, I enjoy reading these bethel stories, and any stories from the past. Really gives a different perspective to us from future generations.

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Double life

by Esmeralda001 in

is there a way i can successfully live a double life?

don't get me wrong, i'm not trying to get engaged in activities that are condemnable according to the *bible* (not the *wt*) standards.

i figured that the only way i can get the brothers and sisters to leave me along is by pretending that i am an unemployed drop out.

A.proclaimer

You could try and live that way but could only do it for so long. Sounds draining. Also someone could, by some chance, find out the truth. It'll be a challenge to go against the current but it's a more honest one. Plus aren't they always telling us at the Kingdom Hall to be different and not follow the crowd? (Even though I know in this sense they're taking about worldly people). Like others said, tell them it's a personal affair and try putting a stop to them.

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Elder continues serving as elder after his daughter got disfellowshipped!

by hardtobeme in

this is what is happening in a spanish congregation in our area.

this happened 3 weeks ago.

this brother conducted the school and after the school was over, another elder gave the announcement: "( name of the person) is not longer a jehovah's witness".

A.proclaimer

I find it strange that this elder wasn't removed from his position. Usually that's what always happens. I've attended a Spanish congregation for most of my life and I've never heard of them letting someone slip by. He's probably favored or protected by the other elders. Although I have heard of elders where they ride back to position or get privileges back in a short amount of time.

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Half of the cong was dancing last night

by StarTrekAngel in

so went to the meeting last night.

i had not been to one since before the holiday break (3 weeks ago).

besides, it was our first meeting in the new format.

A.proclaimer

At my hall, they keep playing the new songs in the background after the meeting is over. When this song came up, my sister started talking like if she was a commercial narrator. We laughed and then we started talking about how weird and mainstream-like the new songs sounds. It sound like church music to me.

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Is the term "worldly" outdated?

by A.proclaimer in

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yesterday i had to listen to the co from a spanish congregation on the phone.

he said the fds has been gradually moving away from the word "worldly" and teaching jws not to use the term anymore.

has anyone heard this in their congregation or heard the term "non-believers" used before?

A.proclaimer

Yesterday I had to listen to the CO from a Spanish congregation on the phone. He said the FDS has been gradually moving away from the word "worldly" and teaching JWs not to use the term anymore. Now it's "non-believers". Has anyone heard this in their congregation or heard the term "non-believers" used before?

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1914, leap years, and sticky math situation

by A.proclaimer in

360 days x 2520 years = 907,200 days.

365.25 days x 2520 years = 920,430 days.

920,430 days - 907,200 days = 13,230 days in difference .

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@ St. George

i actually didn't know that a year wasn't exactly 365.25 days a year. It's an approximate number from what I read so far. Makes the whole think more complicated

Nevertheless my point was to show how complicated the whole thing is and to disprove the leap years excuse. Of course we know that 1914 isn't true and can be proven in other ways. But can you imagine people In the distant past sitting down to do the math if this was the formula?